Friday, 29 June 2012

Who and what inspires you?
I try to pull inspiration from everywhere but I tend to find myself constantly being drawn to mapping and diagramming and locating myself graphically in my surroundings. I'm also inspired by ways to harness nature in urban environments, natural history and oddities, and the occult.

What techniques have you used in your final collection?
For my final collection I only used natural dyes and screen printing.
What excites you about your future as a young textile designer?
I am excited to try to help revive the craft of natural dyeing and to help promote local commerce as well with my work.

What are your unique qualities that you think you offer as you enter the world of art and design?
I believe I have a strong business mentality along side being creative. I have an eye for keeping a client in mind, and think my creative optimism can help solve some key issues in design practices today.

What would be your dream collaboration or project?
My dream collaboration would be to partner with a restaurant / or some sort of food service to create a studio where we helped and used each others excess wastes. It would be great to try to make a collection that was sold on a large scale simply with by products.

The People's Print look forward to dyeing and dining with you in the future!
Thank you Cara Piazza

Thursday, 28 June 2012

The works done, a great
portfolio, maybe even a first degree, shows down, all done, schools out! But the
prospect of leaving ‘the nest’ must be daunting for the recent graduate setting
out into the ‘real’ world. As educators we do our best to prepare them for the
reality but being a nurtured student in a close knit community to suddenly cast
out is a shock for all and sometimes feels brutal and an abrupt end from a
highly creative existence and environment. Some students have had enough of
education and are ready to go and some are apprehensive, understandably in this
economic climate.

With a great body of work under
their belt, the next step is offered here at Artsmart, run by The University of
The Arts, a series of talks, workshops, portfolio advice, tips all by
professional speakers from industry to help them with the next set of skills that are needed
for all those bright young things launch themselves into the ‘creative
industries’. There is so much good advice out there and it’s brought together
here.

Now suddenly it seems all so
exciting! &The People’s print will be checking out Artsmart tomorrow.

Sunday, 24 June 2012

People's Print member Naomi Whitehead graduates this year from Chelsea College of Art and Design with her final collection 'Naomi's World', here's more about whats going on in her world of pattern, print and material investigation.

Hello Naomi

Who and what inspires you?

I love the bold colour and graphic symbolism found
within the motoring industry. Chemistry labs and crystal structures also
inspire me. New scientific textiles and the unexpected reapplication of
materials excites me the most.

What techniques have you used in your final collection?

I have used digital printing on to wool to create women tailoring with bold colour choices. I have also created a matching jewellery collection using plant based BioResin, currently used in the motoring industry by companies such as BMW for car exteriors. I have found that BioResin is perfect for jewellery due to its non-toxic, eco-friendly properties.

Are you excited about your future as a young textile designer?

It is a scary prospect leaving education but the
possibilities and applications of my textiles have the potential to be applied
in many industries.

What are your unique qualities that you think you offer as you enter the
world of art and design?

My dream collaboration would be with Mclaren racing,
combining my passion for luxury cars with digital print and BioResin
experiments would be an exciting project. In past project Inside/Outside I
created digital prints based on the lightweight composite fabrics as well as
sculptural pieces using laminating resin. These fabrics include
Carbon fibre and Kevlar as used on the exterior panels of performance cars.

Saturday, 23 June 2012

While we're busy at People's Print finalising the first exciting collection of ebooks dedicated to the Great British Floral, do start taking photos of seasonal flowers whenever you can so that you're ready for the first floral tutorial ebooks coming out later this season!

Each book will show you how, step by step, to transform your personal photos into amazing, personalised garment prints!

If you're keen for the first collection of e-books to show you how, please drop us an email with My Floral Tutorial E-book in the title and you'll hear about them first!

We invite you to upload your best photos to our Facebook page too! These are some of our photos from a rather rainy British summer!

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Here is People's Print
member Geraldine Perclard, who is graduating this year with her exciting textile collection 'Chaos and Order' to find out more The People's Print asked her some
questions:

What is the
inspiration behind your work Geraldine?

The 'Chaos and Order' Collection was inspired by the research I have done on Schizophrenia.I have
experienced this illness from very close as one of my relative was diagnosed
with it when I was four years old. The visual research is based on the
concept of Chaos vs. Order. The way I see it is: the things that goes on
in the mind of people suffering from schizophrenia is fast, random and very
busy - messy and chaotic to anybody else - But there is also another side to it
- a rare outermost sensitiveness to the physical and natural environment that
is when, I think, the genius comes in.Ultimately, through the Chaos and Order
Collection I would like to raise awareness about an illness that is more
common than we think - 1/100 people suffers from it at one
point in their life. With real support from society - people suffering
from it and their relatives can live an almost normal life.

What
techniques have you used?

As primary research I
started to do my own paintings to express the Chaos, it was
spontaneous, random, I didn't follow any rules. In parallel, I started to
develop a collection of geometric shapes inspired by chemistry and maths,
theories, they expressed the genius, the Order. I designed
the geometric on Illustrator as I wanted a very sleek and sharp
aesthetic - I then open my files on Photoshop and placed the paintings
into the different shapes. I printed the final design on cotton and silk and
painted block colours in the shapes and dip dyed the fabric.

Who inspires
you?

I am inspired by designers
and artists who are not afraid to challenge prejudices and use their practice
to make a statement.

Are you
excited about your future as a young textile designer?

I am very excited because I
think that through textiles so much can be said, it is an amazing platform to
catch the public attention on subject that are taboo or not always easy to talk
about otherwise. Designing beautiful textiles that also tell a story and raise
social issues, I can't wait to start!

What would be
your dream collaboration or project?

My dream collaboration is
with my sister, she is an amazing make up artist, and I would love to create an
original collection mixing textiles and make up.

Thank you Geraldine, The People's Print wish you all the best in your career.

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